Injecting Renegade Firmware

[0jay]

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to install renegade firmware on a Rasperry Pi build for example?

 

Libre used to host a script for a tool that achieved this but it hasn't been updated since Buster

 

TIA

[0jay]

Even just someone kicking in with yes I think it's possible but not sure how or whatever

 

I'd been thinking to ad the armbian repo hosting firmware files but I doubt it's so simple in practice

[Igor]

20 hours ago, 0jay said:

install renegade firmware on a Rasperry Pi

This is confusing for me. What are you actually trying to achieve? What is on Renegade that is not on Rpi?

[0jay]

2 hours ago, Igor said:

What is on Renegade that is not on Rpi?

 

I believe renegade uses a diff bootloader but seems logical that firmwares would be different given different hardware

 

The Libre tool is designed to inject Renegade firmware to make a Debian system swappable between Rpis and Renegade boards.

 

What I was ultimately hoping to do though is use Rpi builds for other distros like Alpine and inject Renegade/Firefly firmware to make those pi builds usable on a Renegade board

Edited 5 hours ago by 0jay

[eselarm]

41 minutes ago, 0jay said:

The Libre tool is designed to inject Renegade firmware to make a Debian system swappable between Rpis and Renegade boards.

In general it can be done what you want. You just need to understand how Arm SBCs boot/work and Linux in general. Simply stated, it is: ROM -> bootloader -> kernel -> userspace

ROM is very specific for the SoC of course, also bootloader is specific as well as the kernel. You can make a kernel that includes all various drivers and methods, like there is for x86 (works with Intel chips and AMD chips). userspace (rootfs) is normally generic, so if you take RPi bootloader+kernel and Libre userspace, it can work. I have done such things several times, but then the other way around: RPi userspace from my 5 years always in-place upgraded rootfs running on Rockchip RK3588 SBCs (Armbian bootloader and kernel). That way no lengthy and boring re-install of all sorts of debian packages and configs tuning etc. Even browser bookmarks are the same then. So very fast up and running with the new SBC. You need to know or start to study the differences in bootloader methods of course. In your case looking into the Libre script/tool would be a good start I think.

[0jay]

2 hours ago, eselarm said:

looking into the Libre script/tool would be a good start

This was my original approach.

 

I don't have the knowledge/experience to parse a script like that and is the reason I was asking here.